#  Some trilobites mated like extant horseshoe crabs 

 





May 06, 2022

 

 

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 Through careful study of exceptional specimens, graduate student [Sarah Losso](/people/sarah-r-losso) and faculty-curator [Javier Ortega-Hernández](/people/javier-ortega-hern%C3%A1ndez) show that some trilobites mated very much like extant horseshoe crabs thanks to their highly modified clasper-like limbs.   
  
["Claspers in the mid-Cambrian Olenoides serratus indicate horseshoe crab–like mating in trilobites", published in Geology](https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G49872.1/613523/Claspers-in-the-mid-Cambrian-Olenoides-serratus)  
["Before There Were Birds or Bees, This Is How Trilobites Made Babies", New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/science/trilobites-sex-claspers.html)



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Invertebrate Paleontology ](/news/invertebrate-paleontology)